Android G2 Hands On: Close to Perfection
HTC and Google are getting closer to perfection with the new Android G2, the HTC Magic. Nice finish, great form factor. Check out our video, including the obligatory comparison with Apple's iPhone, ...
50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
What has been shown in court today is that the prosecutor cannot prove that the .torrent files he is using as evidence actually used The Pirate Bay's tracker. Many of the screenshots being used clear...
Introducing Yahoo!(R) Mobile - Your Starting Point to the Internet
Improving Consumers' Ability to Use Their Phones to Discover, Stay Connected and Stay Informed — Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo! Mobile service - a highly-...
SEC Charges Research in Motion and Four Senior Executives With Stock Option Backdating
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2009-27 — Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Limited (RIM) and four of its senior ex...
Anonymous Caller? New Service Says, Not Any More
A new service set for launch Tuesday allows cellphone users to unmask the Caller ID on blocked incoming calls, obtaining the phone number, and in some cases the name and address, of the no-longer-ano...
Battery, RAM, and HD access on new 17-inch Macbook Pro
Apple's new unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro began shipping earlier this week and a new tear-down of the high-end notebook reveals the steps needed to access the system's internal memory, hard drive, and b...
Mobile Company Employees Report What It's Like on the Inside
The Mobile World Congress kicked off Monday in Barcelona, bringing together nearly 50,000 attendees for the largest exhibition in the mobile industry. Not only is this a great opportunity for those i...
Mahalo Caught Spamming Google With PageRank Funneling Link Scheme
Jason “SEO is dead” Calacanas, founder of Mahalo, used “SEO is dead” as a publicity stunt to help launch his made for AdSense scraper website. In the past we have noted how he was caught ranking page...
With a King's Ransom in Cash, Why Is There Still No Buying Spree in the Tech Space Yet?
Even in the midst of the economic meltdown, consider these mega-billion-dollar cash hordes of big tech companies: — Microsoft (MSFT): $20.7 billion — Cisco (CSCO): $29.5 billion — Apple (AAPL): ...
How Facebook is taking over our lives
President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft's new operating system borrows from it. No question, Facebook has friends in high places. Can CEO Mark Zucker...
New tech start-ups can rise from the economy's ashes
SAN FRANCISCO — It's boom — and bust — for Silicon Valley companies these days. Literally. — Facing their worst economic climate since the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, high-tech companies are t...
Apple absent from universal phone charger push
Although AT&T and several other iPhone partners joined an industry initiative to standardize mobile phone chargers over the next few years, Apple has yet to follow suit and may remain committed to its...
LG Brings Its Stylish New 3G LG-X120 Netbook to Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain, February, 16, 2009 - LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, today announced the launch of its smart and stylish new netbook, the LG-X120.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 RTM Details
Although Microsoft has consistently asserted in public that Windows 7 will probably only be launched in 2010, the truth is they are rushing for a December 2009 release. How close are they? Well, one...
MySpace's Google Gravy Train Set to Stop Next Year
Midway through next year, Google's $900 million, 3.5-year search advertising deal with News Corp. and MySpace expires. What are the odds that Rupert Murdoch's social network gets anything close to th...
Microsoft in talks to acquire local startup 3DV Systems
The first Israeli exit of 2009 is hitting the road. Software giant Microsoft is negotiating to acquire the Israeli startup 3DV Systems for about $35 million, despite the alarming condition of the glo...
Yahoo Fights In-House Bias Claim
A discrimination complaint threw a harsh light on Yahoo's legal department, and two years later, the case remains one of the Internet giant's ongoing struggles. — One of its own lawyers — a black wo...
SynthaSite Gets A $20 Million Boost For Simple Website Creation Software
There have been simple, browser-based website creation tools available on the market ever since the WWW turned mainstream, but there's clearly still a significant demand for this type of services, esp...
Spammers break Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA yet again
The battle by Microsoft to secure its Live Hotmail system from spammers appears to have failed yet again with the news that the latest version of its CAPTCHA authentication system has been broken. — ...
Analyst: Declines in Mac, iPod sales isn't so bad
When is negative growth a positive thing? In this economy, any growth that stays in-line with Wall Street expectations can be viewed as a good thing - though it's still too early to call. And that's...
Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000
Layoffs in the tech sector are accelerating. It took exactly three weeks for tech layoffs to surge to 300,000, according to our Layoff Tracker. Since late January, when the tracker hit 200,000 layof...
South Park iPhone App a No-Show in Apps Store; Cartman Blames Kyle's Mom.
Remember back in October when I blogged about a new iPhone app from the South Park guys? Not sure what the whole story is on this one, but our friends at South Park tell us the app has long been comp...
Startup Sues Google Using Microsoft's (Outside) Lawyers
By Jessica E. Vascellaro — TradeComet.com LLC, which operates a small search engine for industrial products, has sued Google, alleging that the search giant tried to put it out of business by increa...
Future Shock for Internet Ads?
What does the Internet display-ad market have in common with Zimbabwe? — Both are printing nearly-limitless amounts of their main currency, vastly diminishing its value and undermining their future....
Get Satisfaction gets new CEO and funding, amid growth
[Disclosure: Get Satisfaction was founded by Thor Muller, who is an advisor to VentureBeat.] — Get Satisfaction, a company that aims to improve online customer service by letting the customers take ...
DO FACEBOOK'S LATEST TERMS OF SERVICE CONTRAVENE THE EUROPEAN DATA PROTECTION ACTS?
Looking at the brouhaha surrounding Facebook's latest TOS changes, I wondered if they contravened the EU laws on Data Protection. At first blush they probably do in a number of areas.
1000 is the new 10
Ever wish you could see more than just ten local search results at once? Us too. — So we've added a search layer for local search results that activates when there are more relevant results than we...
European Palm Pre Multitasks Better Than Sprint's
Palm also announces MySpace app, developer book — BARCELONA — The European UMTS version of the Palm Pre will be able to surf the Web while making a phone call at the same time, something that Sprint...
Google: The Case Against A Second Half Recovery
Time to take profits in Google (GOOG), advises ThinkEquity analyst William Morrison. — Morrison this morning cut his rating on the stock to “Source of Funds,” from Accumulate, and reduced his price ...
A Virtual Unknown
So, the Internet walks into a bar. — The bar is in New York's Chinatown. It's a recent Saturday afternoon. It looks beer-stained and sweaty with the lights on, packed with plastic folding chairs a...
The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives
The cellphone is the world's most ubiquitous computer. The four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to na...
Vodafone and HTC unveil Android-powered HTC Magic
Vodafone extends world-class range of Internet phones with latest Android™-powered smartphone from HTC — HTC Magic smartphone exclusive to Vodafone customers initially in UK, Spain, Germany and Franc...
Universal mobile phone charger unveiled
The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record. — The plan from industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) is...
Yahoo Reorganizes, Rebrands Mobile Offerings As “Yahoo Mobile”
In Barcelona at the GSMA Mobile World Congress event, which has been mostly about new handsets so far, Yahoo announced what it's calling “Yahoo Mobile.” I haven't yet been able to talk to anyone at Y...
Skype strikes deal with Nokia
BARCELONA—Skype is racking up deals with mobile handset makers here at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009. — On Tuesday, the company, which is owned by eBay, announced a partnership with Nokia, the lar...
Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!
Over on Slashdot is perhaps the worst piece on Windows 7 that I've see so far (I find it hard to believe that this one will be beaten anytime soon ...). … OK, just a few points worth making: — Someon...
Microsoft Updates Windows Mobile To Make It More Like The iPhone. (My Phone, Anyone?).
Once again, Microsoft is throwing some flattery Apple's way by following its lead. Earlier today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft announced the latest version of its mobile...
Nokia and Qualcomm Plan to Develop Advanced Mobile Devices
ESPOO, FINLAND AND SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - February 17, 2009 - Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) today announced that the two companies are planning to work together to develop advanced UMTS ...
Offerpal Media Raises $15 Million to Peddle In-Game Ads
For most casual gamers on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, tricking out their avatars is almost more fun than playing the game. — One way to build an impressive inventory of ...
Sirius XM agrees to $530 million Liberty Media stake
Troubled Sirius XM Radio announced Tuesday, following reports, that it will accept an investment from cable giant Liberty Media. — The investment, which will save the satellite radio company from ba...
Verizon May Offer Landline Plan for $5
In a sign that the recession is forcing phone companies to take bold measures to hold onto landline customers, Verizon Communications Inc. is considering a $5 monthly voice plan that would let custome...
Google-backed film is Oscar contender
Roll out the red carpet and air kisses for Google. — On Sunday, the Internet company will find out if a film that its philanthropic arm conceived of and bankrolled has won an Academy Award for best ...
Guilty by accusation copyright protestors paint it black
A protest campaign against the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act appears to be gaining momentum as protesters, including high profile UK celebrity Stephen Fry, black-out photos on Twitter, Fa...
From the height of this place
I originally wrote this email for internal consumption; Presidents' Day here in the US and President Obama's recent inaugural address got me thinking about the future of the Internet, Google, and the ...